Definition of Internet

Internet is an agglomeration of networks that allows decentralized interconnection of computers through any of a set of protocols known as TCP/IP. The Net roots to the year 1969, when an agency of the Department of Defense of the USA began to look for alternatives in order to face a possible atomic war that can deprive the people communicate with each other. Three years later, the first public demonstration of the imagined system took place, thanks to three universities in California and one of Utah who have managed to establish a connection that bears the name of ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network). Contrary to what can be thought, Internet and the World Wide Web are not synonymous. The WWW is an information system developed in 1989 by Tim Berners Lee and Robert Cailliau. This service allows to have access to information with links between them through HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol).
There is mention of other services and protocols available on the network of networks, such as access to remote computers known as Telnet, system data/file transfer FTP, email (POP and SMTP), P2P file sharing and online chats or cats.
The development of Internet has surpassed by far any forecast and constituted a revolution in modern society. The system has turned into a pillar of communications, recreation and commerce to the four corners of the world.
OF statistics, in 2006, Internet users (so-called Internet users) have exceeded the 1,100 million people. For the next decade, it is intended that this double number, massification-driven access to high-speed (broadband).